Smart Cities Challenge

Consultation has concluded

The City of Mississauga participated in the Government of Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge. The Challenge encouraged communities to submit their ideas of how to improve the lives of residents through innovation, data and connected technology. Although Mississauga was not selected as part of the shortlist of communities, the City intends to move forward with its Smart Cities Master Plan.

What is a Smart City?

Smart cities around the world are using data and technology to find new and innovative ways to improve their communities. These smart city ideas can provide solutions to:

advance transportation and ease traffic congestion

improve the environment

enhance access to services

ensure public safety

ease the effects of extreme weather

facilitate education

further access to social services and more.

Mississauga has already implemented many smart city initiatives including free public Wi-Fi, open data, hackathons, fibre network, Advanced Traffic Management, LED Lighting, mobile apps and more.

Through this online engagement site, online survey, public events and community outreach, we engaged residents, industry and agency partners to help us to develop a Smart City Master Plan and our Smart Cities Challenge submission. We asked how we could make Mississauga even better by using technology, data and innovation. The feedback and ideas received were used to create our submission. Here is a brief video of highlights from our community engagement:

The City of Mississauga's full submission has been uploaded here. For more information on Mississauga’s Smart City projects, please visit our Smart City website.

The Smart Cities Challenge was launched in 2017 as part of theImpact Canada Initiative to help communities of all sizes improve the lives of their residents through innovation, data and connected technology. The program is delivered by Infrastructure Canada and will contribute $300M in three rounds of competition funding over 11 years.

The City of Mississauga participated in the Government of Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge. The Challenge encouraged communities to submit their ideas of how to improve the lives of residents through innovation, data and connected technology. Although Mississauga was not selected as part of the shortlist of communities, the City intends to move forward with its Smart Cities Master Plan.

What is a Smart City?

Smart cities around the world are using data and technology to find new and innovative ways to improve their communities. These smart city ideas can provide solutions to:

advance transportation and ease traffic congestion

improve the environment

enhance access to services

ensure public safety

ease the effects of extreme weather

facilitate education

further access to social services and more.

Mississauga has already implemented many smart city initiatives including free public Wi-Fi, open data, hackathons, fibre network, Advanced Traffic Management, LED Lighting, mobile apps and more.

Through this online engagement site, online survey, public events and community outreach, we engaged residents, industry and agency partners to help us to develop a Smart City Master Plan and our Smart Cities Challenge submission. We asked how we could make Mississauga even better by using technology, data and innovation. The feedback and ideas received were used to create our submission. Here is a brief video of highlights from our community engagement:

The City of Mississauga's full submission has been uploaded here. For more information on Mississauga’s Smart City projects, please visit our Smart City website.

The Smart Cities Challenge was launched in 2017 as part of theImpact Canada Initiative to help communities of all sizes improve the lives of their residents through innovation, data and connected technology. The program is delivered by Infrastructure Canada and will contribute $300M in three rounds of competition funding over 11 years.

Thank you for participating in this short Smart Cities Challenge Survey. All responses will
remain anonymous. Your responses will help us to develop a Smart City Master
Plan and our Smart Cities Challenge submission. We will be publishing
the results of the survey along with our submission to the Smart Cities
Challenge in late April 2018.

Thank you for participating in this short Smart Cities Challenge Survey. All responses will
remain anonymous. Your responses will help us to develop a Smart City Master
Plan and our Smart Cities Challenge submission. We will be publishing
the results of the survey along with our submission to the Smart Cities
Challenge in late April 2018.

Stages of the Project

Phase 1 - Public Consultation

Phase 2 - Drafting the Plan

Contributions to this consultation are closed for evaluation and review. The Project team will report back on key outcomes.

Phase 3 - Final Submission

Smart Cities Challenge is currently at this stage

We have entered our submission in the federal government's Smart Cities Challenge. More information about the content of the submission will be available here in mid-May. Please refer to the documents section of this site to see background documents and the presentation to General Committee for details about the submission.